Hot on the heels of the ground-breaking ‘Sum-Of-Three-Cubes’ solution for the number 33, a team led by the University of Bristol and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has solved the final piece of the famous 65-year-old maths puzzle with an answer for the most elusive number of all – 42. The original problem, set in […]
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Anmäl din skola till Skolornas Matematiktävling 2019 senast onsdag den 18 september! Det är därför hög tid att anmäla just din skola till tävlingen som varje år inspirerar mängder av gymnasieelever att utforska matematikens fantastiska värld. Skolornas matematiktävling är en tävling i matematisk problemlösning för gymnasielever. Tävlingen har arrangerats varje år sedan 1961 av Svenska
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Du kan ladda ner alla problemen som en pdf. Glöm heller inte att skicka in dina lösningar! Vi publicerar lösningar och kommentarer när inkomna lösningar är sammanställda. Alla_problem_sep_19 Skicka in lösningar Vi utmanar alla enskilda, grupper och klasser att skicka in lösningar, kommentarer eller förklaringar till hur ni löst problemen. Bidragen kan vara digitala eller
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Bokrecension Susan Moore Johnson has spent a lifetime studying teachers in their workplaces. In her new book, Where Teachers Thrive: Organizing Schools for Success, she helps us understand more about how context matters. To emphasize the central importance of the environment of schools for teachers, when the research team “compared schools demographically similar, we found
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A new report from the Oklahoma Department of Education confirmed that that state has lost 30,000 teachers in the past six years, a significant number in a state that employs a total of only 41,000 teachers. Response to teacher flight in Oklahoma, as in other states, has focused on finding warm bodies to fill classrooms,
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A beautiful landscape painting, a beautiful piano sonata — art and music are almost exclusively described in terms of aesthetics, but what about math? Beyond useful or brilliant, can an abstract idea be considered beautiful? Yes, actually — and not just by mathematicians, reports a new study in Cognition. Läs mer [EurekAlert!]
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Boosting academic success does not have to derive from new teachers or curriculum; it can also come from changing students’ attitudes about their abilities through a short online intervention, according to the latest findings from the National Study of Learning Mindsets published in Nature on Aug. 7. The experimental study involved more than 12,000 ninth
A multi-national European study, looking at over 5,500 students, has found that a novel school intervention program can not only improve the mathematics scores of primary school children from disadvantaged areas, but can also lessen the achievement gap caused by socioeconomic status. Läs mer [EurekAlert!]
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When preschool teachers read books in their classrooms, the questions they ask play a key role in how much children learn, research has shown. But a new study that involved observing teachers during class story times found that they asked few questions – and those that they did ask were usually too simple. Läs mer
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